Humility = Fearlessness = Leadership

This blog is an explanation of a snippet from this book

We all are leaders. Somewhere in our life we are leading a tiny fraction of people. At times entire people, like subordinates. Most of the times a fraction of people, family and friends. We are leading emotions in our cross talks. Sometimes we are leading our own self out of bad decisions.

To lead, is an important trait of our life. We need to adapt it, to live a life of sobriety. Today’s topic is broken into following parts.

1. Connecting Humility with Fearlessness

2. The Fruit

1. Connecting Humility with Fearlessness

Abraham Lincoln by Pixabay

I never found a word to describe the synonym of responsibility more easily. The work load, embracing the failures, accepting our own inefficiency makes us humble. Humble and Humility are equal words. Without accepting responsibility of the assigned responsibilities we can not reach the Humble part.

That said, it is important, we look our own self down. It is important we understand we are not fulfilling our responsibilities, as they are meant to be. It is important we count ourself a block in the wall.

To become a great leader, you need to first “stop taking credit” of becoming the wheel that drives forward your company. Next stop thinking, you are “the secret ingredient”. And finally, embrace it, you are an incomplete human, filled with zillion flaws, not fulfilling your responsibilities and bow down your head for criticism.

Next comes connecting the Fearlessness with Humility.

To take the criticism, talk your failures loudly, open yourself up for judgment and walk naked (the Steve Jobs naked) is quite hard. It takes one solid spine to walk with your head high, while your life is all visible to the audience.

Here, an un-nerving belief in your failures, the purpose of these falls plays its role. The belief makes you fearless. You are able to bounce back the criticism effectively.

The initial bounces, thuds, falls and failures, finally take you over this line of continuous attacks of negativity. Conquering the attacks, finally makes you a fearless leader. Finally, you become a person that your family, friends and colleagues accepts in you. Finally, you embrace it, “You are incomplete”.

2. The Fruit

Dance by Yogendra Singh

The “struggle to becoming a leader” has fruits. It gives you freedom, no doubt. It gives your life a purpose, no doubt about that. It gives you a vision, a direction, a sword, a pen and some tools, no doubt. But the only fruit it gives you, is “emotion”.

You cry, your cry touches people’s heart. You laugh, it moves people. You talk, it resonates longer. You walk, it is looked at, copied and adopted. You rule, not people, not wealth, not a company, but emotions.

The emotions, connect you to your current life. You were still in-complete, half and impure. You still were not fulfilling your responsibilities. But it gives you a catalyst to heal the broken fabrics in your relations, friends and colleagues, faster. You simply become one abnormal speck in the dust, that has no self-respect, no self-esteem and no fear of losing. You just sit there. And the people around you, decorate you, embolden you, lift you up and save you from the kicks, splashes and rain. While you are a speck in a desert, the sand storms, floods and crowds, change their direction, Only to protect you.

Conclusion

Trump tower by Jonathan Cooper

Become a leader. The best. That smiles. Laughs. Runs. Eats. Takes pride in failures. Who is naked. One version of his personality. Some time attacked. Other times ruined. But standing firm. Not giving up on his Wife. Friends. Colleagues. Subordinates. That leader. Who is in-complete. That makes him Humble. That person. Who is flawed. That gives him Humility. One version. That makes you fearless. A glass. That rules the emotions.

Until then, keep running forward, pushing farther and hitting harder. Love your journey. Until then, walk with head held high. Chest wide. Like a symbol of Pride. Because, you might never reach there, the perfect company and a perfect leader, but you will surely reach where you will be ruling “emotions”. That your patchy sewed piece of cloth won’t harm you. That your shabby walk won’t lower you. That your broken voice won’t stop you. That you will walk like Muhammad, in the ruins, get the dirt like Abu Bakr, in the sandstorms, get the beating of Bilal, under the rock and rule the emotions like Hussain, at Karbala.

You, my brother, will love the journey. Just get Humble. Embrace Humility. Walk Fearless. And Become a Leader of your Clan.